Hi all,
Has anyone checked OpenSuse possibilities (10 or 11) to do the role of Fileserver?
The situation is, in a windows2003 LAN, all the workstations and notebooks are running WindowsXP o Windows Vista…:(Is possible to configure OpenSuse 11 to do the fileserver role to serve office files (word, excel…).
How can i configure Samba, Winbind and Kerberos to do this?
Is there some documentation to do this or has anyone checked fileserver linux in a Windows LAN?
Thanks.
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:16 +0000, SuseTen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone checked OpenSuse possibilities (10 or 11) to do the role of
> Fileserver?
> The situation is, in a windows2003 LAN, all the workstations and
> notebooks are running WindowsXP o Windows Vista…:(Is possible to
> configure OpenSuse 11 to do the fileserver role to serve office files
> (word, excel…).
> How can i configure Samba, Winbind and Kerberos to do this?
>
> Is there some documentation to do this or has anyone checked fileserver
> linux in a Windows LAN?
Ours does both. Serves the Windows users as well as our Linux/Unix
users. SMB via samba joined to the AD domain… and NFS for our
Linux/Unix users.
There are some limitations. More so if you do the “everything” setup
we did. There is no one-for-one mapping of POSIX draft ACLs to
NTFS permissions. With that said, it doesn’t do a bad job, but there
are certain permission combinations and setups that will not work
if your file share is from Samba. And in the “everything” setup,
it’s wise to just POSIX ACLs all together, which dumbs the server
down to an old style Windows share… but it still works for simple
owner permissions (you have to do this because POSIX draft ACLs are
pretty much only in Linux). Others things in the “everything” setup
to watch out for are locks. If you’re NFS and Samba are hitting the
same filesystem off of the same box, you can have some locking.
However, if the Samba is reexporting NFS, you’ll have to lose locking
as well (that’s not as big of a deal as it might seem).
The large books at the Samba site will help. You’ll still have to
play a bit.
You just need Samba and winbind.
I can try to help a bit, but those books should be enough to get you
started. Our setup is a bit advanced and not in any document, but
works extremely well.
Tanks for your information cjcox.